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Corey Heafield-Spaley

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Men with insight, men in granite. A few in carbonite.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18h
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's a Make America White Again operation. On page 98 of the Reconstruction Papers begins my essay about what basic immigration reform would look like if Dems win. Why is deportation/incarceration the default? Why not fines or community service for peeps to get their immigration papers right?
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The PDF of The Reconstruction Papers Is Now Free to the Public
If you've been waiting to read The Reconstruction Papers, wait no longer.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A deeply weird thing about entering middle age now is the continual struggle of 'is this just age-related nostalgia' versus 'empirically, a really bad thing happened to the United Kingdom when I turned eighteen'.
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Cambridge Public Health Department @cambpublichealth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
When you are a fan of the #XMen and work in public health:
Image of the X-Men from X-Men 97 that says "To me, my public health X-Men."
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Ed @ed3d.net · 11/08/2026
become ungvrnble
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social
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Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.
Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...
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Corey Heafield-Spaley @cwspaley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Looking forward to reading @unlawfulentries.bsky.social's essay and the rest this weekend.
A book with three wrenches on the cover and the title The Reconstruction Papers sits on a table in front of other books and magazines.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Britt Grant: "Because the government pays the professors' salaries, Florida says, their speech is the State's speech. Emphatically no."
For its part, Florida seeks to evade any First Amendment limitations at all by rigging together several speech doctrines to create a new rule that would quietly remove all free speech protections from the classroom. Because the government pays the professors' salaries, Florida says, their speech is the State's speech.
Emphatically no. The Florida defendants cannot "put together half a donkey and half a camel, and then ride to victory on the synthetic hybrid." David F. Cavers, The Choice-of-Law Process 39 (1965) (quotation omitted). When we read the cases Florida cites-rather than the quotations it pulls from them-the doctrinal connections quickly unravel.
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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 06/07/2026
Should they win tonight, can England raise enough money to suspend that suspension? 🟥
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/07/2026
THIS GAME HAS LOST ITS MIND
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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
MEXICO VS. ENGLAND LET'S GOOOOOO
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/07/2026
new video, fresh off the presses. i discuss justice jackson's concurrence and sam alito's disturbing dissent.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Told the True Story of Birthright Citizenship
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
My hopes for the rabbi who envisions my defeat — and for a better Jewish future.
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My hopes for the rabbi who envisions my defeat — and for a better Jewish future
Elliot Cosgrove says I’m doomed politically as a Jew who seeks a new path for Israel. I invite him to join me in reckoning with our shared spiritual challenge.
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
There has been a great deal of false and speculative information about @pressfreedom.bsky.social in the past few days. Today, the board voted to affirm our definition of who is a journalist. The mission and the work remain unchanged: protecting journalists everywhere. cpj.org/2026/07/boar...
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Board votes to affirm CPJ’s existing definition of who is a journalist - Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) board of directors voted on Wednesday to affirm the organization’s existing definition of who is a journalist and rejected claims it planned to change its de...
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Corey Heafield-Spaley @cwspaley.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Currently in Canada for Canada Day, which means I've completed the Mexico/USA/Canada North American trifecta of being in-country for each country's independence day. It's nice to celebrate with neighbors.
A picture of a miniature Canadian flag resting above an American passport on a dark, flat surface
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Look, I agree cost is a problem & college tuition should be what it was in the 1970s & we should fund the damn public universities like we used to, but this is simply not true. Not least bc the parents who say this are overwhelmingly of financial means to have their kids play travel sports. Also:
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Corey Heafield-Spaley @cwspaley.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Don't pretend to know the inner workings of Atlanta Fed methodology, but funny that, after running above the blue chip consensus for several months, their GDP projection has bottomed out to 1.2% www.atlantafed.org/economy-now/...
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The growth rate of real gross domestic product (GDP) is a key indicator of economic activity, but the official estimate is released with a delay. Our GDPNow forecasting model provides a "nowcast" of the official estimate prior to its release by estimating GDP growth using a methodology similar to the one used by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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Corey Heafield-Spaley @cwspaley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It's not a great feeling to be continually one court case away from losing the Republic.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Grant Stoner @supercrip1994.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I've been playing the final update for Destiny since its release last week. This game is one of the most important, so I decided to interview some of the most important people in my life on what it means for it to finally end. Read my latest @mothership.blog here: www.mothership.blog/destiny-2-wa...
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Destiny 2 was always there: Farewell messages from a clan of friends
“It feels like you are losing a second home..."
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Notthedarkweb @notthedarkweb.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Thanks Mr ollman
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Instead of arguing in circles about the vibecession, a left of center team of rivals should commit to quiet study—offline, where nobody can claim they’re answering voter complaints with charts. Because EVERYONE on the left needs the public to respond well to improving conditions.
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Democrats Need A Vibecession Safe Space
Acknowledging the vibecession is bad politics. But ignoring it is a recipe for losing everything.
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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
What gets me is that DC is even worse. How the hell does Father Cramer even function, he's literally the confessor for the spirit that did all the plagues of Egypt!
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Robin Hilton @robinpr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
If you had to pick the most defining song for Millennials, what would it be? We try to figure it out on this wk's All Songs Considered from @npr.org w/ @hazelcills.bsky.social and @jiggyraps.bsky.social ❤️
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What’s the defining Millennial song? : NPR Music
We weigh the options and attempt to pick the one song that best captures the Millennial experience, from the dizzying highs of the dot-com boom, when anything seemed possible, to the post-9-11 bust, t...
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 19/05/2026
this moment is a wake-up call to "classical liberals," not merely about the profound threat to democracy and the rule of law--but to who they have been in bed with, and how that has genuinely warped their perspective
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
our cat was such a jerk at the cat hotel that the hotel owner had to gently tell us she sucked and that it wasn't her fault because she was scared and we were like "oh wow we thought you were going to 86 her from the cat hotel" [beat] cat hotel owner: "she's 86ed."
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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 17/04/2026
Watch as @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com (graciously) reads mean skeets
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for. apnews.com/article/pitt...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces it has found a buyer to keep the newspaper open
Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said they have found a buyer who had agreed to keep the newspaper open, less than a month before it was due to shut down.
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Corey Heafield-Spaley @cwspaley.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I know I'm a week late to this, but congrats to @ludwigstraub.bsky.social on the John Bates Clark Medal! Interesting to learn about (sincerely) aggregate demand
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Marc Roscoe Loustau @attheedges.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Viktor Orbán concedes!!!!!!! Orbán is out as Prime Minister! #hungary election. Historic.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 04/04/2026
If you think a technical tweak to university admissions generates a 5% swing in vote share in an actual election as opposed to a push poll I have several free transits of Hormuz to sell you.
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Captain Su boo ru Baja blas @coolranch4lyfe.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Someone make a river city ransom mod where it’s cheers
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Corey Heafield-Spaley @cwspaley.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Middle East war live: Oil back at $100 after ships hit - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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Middle East war live: Oil back at $100 after ships hit
Several vessels struck in Gulf, including one in Iraqi port
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
"This is a verified page fundraising support for the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO and Working Partnerships' 2026 rapid response effort to meet the needs of impacted union members, worker center members, and their families..." workingpartnerships.betterworld.org/campaigns/su...
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Support Impacted Union Families! | Working Partnerships
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The case against Graeberism and for Mamdanism dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
Instead of retreating into facile cynicism about the safety net and regulatory state, people on the left should be trying to occupy the bureaucracy at the state, local, and, after the MAGA putschists are finally expelled from power, federal level—not simply because we need good people in those jobs, but because enough good people in any given department can change its internal culture for the better. A lot depends, for example, on whether state and local transportation departments are staffed by car-brained traffic engineers or planners who are genuinely invested in walkability and developing viable mass transit networks. Just as much hinges on whether state health agencies are staffed by people with a genuine commitment to the cause of universal healthcare, even in the face of brutal federal Medicaid cuts.

There’s another reason for occupying the bureaucracy, too. For a movement that wants to transform the state, there is tremendous value in understanding how policy implementation and institutional change happens on a granular level. If you spend some time working inside the bureaucracy and you keep your eyes open, you can learn a lot about the points of leverage that leftist politicians and outside advocacy groups can press to their advantage. On the flipside, you can also learn a great deal about the tradeoffs associated with certain approaches and how well-intentioned but undercooked policy initiatives can produce unintended consequences. These are all important lessons for anyone trying to push any level of government in a more humane direction. But they’re especially important lessons for leftist officials who have ambitious agendas, a finite amount of time in which to implement them, and little room for error.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I wrote a post about George Floyd and Renee Good, murdered five and a half years apart and within a mile of one another. publiccomment.blog/p/the-poison...
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The Poison Always Drips Through
On Renee Good and George Floyd
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A typically excellent @joshuabenton.com piece today, on the demise of Pittsburgh’s only daily newspaper. (I also learned that the Toledo Blade had a London bureau til 1983!) Via @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/will...
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Will Pittsburgh become America’s most important city without a newspaper?
One of the country's oldest newspapers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, says it's shutting down in May. Not going digital-only — just disappearing. But the delayed closure could also spur some long-delay...
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Also, like everything else Krysten Ritter appears in, it immediately makes me want to go rewatch Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23.
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 27/12/2025
what’s my biggest achilles heel? probably the left one, but only by a little bit
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 22/12/2025
Nick and Nora Charles are the best. It was fucking 1934 and Nick got shot by a guy and when the cops showed up he told them to go get a warrant and refused to talk about the guy who shot him. Also Asta has real Indy energy. Very unbiddable
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a blurry black and white photo of a dog running
ALT: a blurry black and white photo of a dog running
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Jim Henley Music @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I think a lot about how Harlan Ellison said in an interview that Agatha Christie’s work would be forgotten five minutes after her death, and (by implication) his work would live on, and nearly the opposite has occurred. I’m not even sneering at Ellison. Just how we don’t understand posterity.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/11/2025
you should support liberal currents!
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Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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Corey Heafield-Spaley @cwspaley.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
youtube.com/shorts/RQSsv... "These issues are still contestable, this is terrain that can be fought over."
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what was the 2024 presidential election?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Lots of people are saying our Ringer Tailgate college football podcast is a very good college football podcast. Find out for yourself at 7 ET Saturday when we go live for Week Five. Then subscribe on every app and platform and leave us good ratings and shit. www.youtube.com/live/_j1R2Fz...
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
IMO, a part of this is the pluralist ontology you see within centre-left spaces - you don't get any sense of hierarchy or power. The idea of something like e.g. Galbraithian countervailing power is something lost on our modern intellectuals.
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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Reminder that when the race started, he was in a 14-point hole, which was BAD, but not irreversible with a little luck. Then the next round, he was down by 30 points, which is a little shocking! Now after spending all this money... people hate his guts.
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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
🎶 psycho killer stress crochet 🎶
Tunusian crocheted blanket. Patterns of diagonal multi-colored squares. Not yet complete.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
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